The History
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The Vision and Prophecy!
For see, these things are possible. Stature is possible. Man was created that through faith he might attain to Divinity. My things are not impossible in the days of your flesh for there is a commitment of the throne in every generation. Though this generation is weak but we (the godhead) have waited for a time like this to show strength; man is weak and the enemy is ready to take advantage of you but we have chosen to bring forth strength out of you, delight can come from you, just set your heart, look away from your distraction and weakness. When you feed and focus, this bread makes you strong and a building stone. This day the house of the Lord is being built, and it is not taking us unaware. We have decided in this day to make you stones because God will surely rest and man will be his rest.
When you don’t know what is spectacular you will envy somebody who is not as good as you. This house was established to keep faith and nothing else can thrive in it. We are here because of the commandment of oath, so guiding this territory is our work. There is a habitation here. Our standing is threatening and we need to know this so as to stand. There is no one word that can change your world. For instance when we say send one word Lord that we can be healed. We don’t need revelation to heal the body. A man cannot come into Life in the soul by mere calling but by the word of Eternal Life, word of Patience of another world. When we are looking for a singular word in the spirit to change our world then we are frauds.
We need to understand that this message is not instantaneous and before we can attain good work, God must have worked in us. To attain Godliness we need to lay down our lives. The reason Jesus had to put on the body of sin was so that he could be subjected to death. Colossians 2:11, ‘In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: The Gospel is unveiling wisdom and if we don’t know it, we will not profit with it. When the devil saw Jesus he charged at him. What God raised in the grave was righteousness; he is the righteousness of God. The reason for flesh is for buffeting and tribulation. As the flesh is being broken, Eternal Life is breaking forth. It is not every trouble or sickness that man will be saved from because the devil is always beating the flesh. Flesh is not bad in itself for it is through it that Eternal Life will be expressed.
Do not presume to escape the flesh for everyone who has come to God from the flesh suffered in the flesh, Jesus was in the flesh so also David, we must be cut and trapped in the flesh and brought forth from the flesh lest the enemy will say that God is unjust. For it has being said that through flesh immortality will break forth, in uncommon circumstances life will break forth, your acceptance of this will make you to focus on walking out your salvation for a course has being put in the flesh for out of your vulnerability will strength come forth.
Hebrews 5:6-7
As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
Our Saviour withstood crying and tears. God wants to open up flesh to Life. We should not look for help for everything we pass through. In the days of our flesh we will cry. Satan has advantage in the flesh; a prophet can also be ordained in the flesh. Christ trusted God that in his sojourn he would not be trapped in the flesh. If we do not escape the flesh we can slide away from the mystery of Life. We are maximizing the space to journey more in the days of our flesh. Our flesh must break apart into Life. Sin is not easily conquered when you take away flesh because it is homeless. For us to overcome we need to fight daily so that we will not allow the enemy to stop us in our flesh again,
It might not look like Eternal Life is working in us. There is something that is at work in us that cannot be gainsaid. If we trust God on a matter and it is not forth coming we should rather focus more on Christ. Our vile body will change because we have given ourselves to the doctrine of Christ. The higher we go the more tensed the trouble will become. That is the way sons are dealt with. We are not looking for help in Egypt where there is no strength; we will stay with the doctrine.
We are to hasten to the estate where all things are new. So we need to stay with the doctrine.
Holy Ghost can be in a place and not work but when it is time to unveil Christ, you will see him working. Christ is a worker! The moment we come to the Holy Place he begins to work in us and by the time we see the Shekinah, our flesh would have been taken away. It is possible for God to want a man to be weak so as to work in Him.
You will stay until I show you more mystery of my father, I am he that is standing in your midst. I am the one working; I am the worker and you will cooperate with me to work. You will not look hither thither. I have come to fix your gaze so that you will stay when I am working, though it is not visible to the eyes of men. Let no man beguile you nor take away your portion, until you attain the height to have a hope of my inheritance in you. Let this hope not be wasted. Keep until this hope is attained in you and my father will partake in it.
We should not quickly complain when God is doing a thing. No one is naturally comfortable that is, when he wants something and he does not have it, especially when the matter is discussed, our hearts sink and we look to God for help concerning them but it is God who has arranged to buffet and trouble the flesh. God is using this raw material to kill the flesh; if we lose sight we will be weary. Our tribulation is working something in us and it is calling us to focus on him. By the time he is done we will be finer than the gold of Oprah. Amen!
The Vision and Prophecy!
There is a jealousy of heaven that needs to take us over so that we will not waver from the doctrine of Christ. The work of the last days is to make souls stray from the doctrine. The manifestations of the Spirit is not enough to stay us on the doctrine as seen with those who cast out devils and did works in the name of Jesus but were still not recognized in the Kingdom. What will make us know and be known is the doctrine. People want to do fantastic with the manifestation of the Spirit and slide past the doctrine of Christ.
The Father, Son and Holy Ghost should be learnt and they are to be learnt for a lifetime. The Word is the One who allocates the ministration of the Spirit. If the Word is not there we will run amiss.
1 Timothy 4:12-13
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
Good profession is the doctrine of Christ. Faith for healing is not what we should fight for but the Faith of Christ that is intended for seeing Christ in flesh. The Faith Christ wants to find when he comes back is that which is unto seeing him formed in men. Every man is naturally a faith being and by instinct, we believe things will be better for us. The spirits of the last days are geared at stopping us from moving on to the Faith of Christ but to stay with the faith of men.
There are many struggles at the base of the mountain; there are spirits that will trouble you. But I have ordained the Church to be at the top of the mountain. You must seek to ascend to the top and occupy. YOU MUST SEEK TO ASCEND. I have come with Truth and mercy to set hearts free and be liberated so you can grow up in all things. When you set your gaze on him, you ascend. Climb beyond the earth. Spirits have been sent to keep men. Your ascension is your safety, your salvation and keeping. Keep on ascending!
The message is in Christ
Medical Check-Up!
REGULAR MEDICAL CHECKUP IS A MUST!
The Lord desires that we prosper and be in health; the prosperity of our souls will also be expressed in our bodies. It is therefore necessary that we GO for total Medical Checkup. Total Medical Checkup starts from the brain down to other organs in the body. Medical Checkups are medical tests done routinely to help detect health issues before they become a problem. There are various medical checkups that we should do regularly, but the common ones are:
Blood Pressure: This is done to detect high or low blood pressure. The normal for systolic is between 110 - 130 and diastolic is between 70 - 90. With the average being 120/80.
Random Blood Sugar (RBS): This is done during the day to know the level of glucose in the blood. It should be between 6 and 8 mmol/l. It can also be done early in the morning before food, called Fasting Blood Sugar (FBS). Normal FBS is between 4 and 6 mmol/l
Body Mass Index (BMI): First determine your weight and height, then you can calculate your BMI.
BMI = weight(kg) ÷ Height(m2)
- Below 18.5 Underweight
- 18.5–24.9 Healthy
- 25.0–29.9 Overweight
- 30.0 and above Obese
Packed Cell Volume (PCV): This can either be too high or too low. If it is high, you can be of help to others by donating. (Note that it is lower for female because of the monthly blood loss.)
Normal female PCV 34% - 44%,
Normal male PCV 44% - 50%.
Genotype and Blood Group: This is another check that should be done. It should be done once in a life time because it does not change. Do not wait until you are about to get married before you run this checkup because it has caused a lot of unnecessary relationship break-ups. More so, it is useful in cases of emergencies where transfusion is needed.
Why People Shun Medical Checkup
There are several factors responsible for the unresponsiveness of people to medical checkup. Some of which are;
The stress attached to it: The process of getting to see the Doctor can be discouraging. But it is worth it. There are lots of things we do in life that are stressful, yet we do them.
Ignorance and financial constraint: Ignorance and the fee attached to getting this done are also major factors that affect people's response to checkups. (Note that Blood Pressure check is free at the hospital but ignorance would deny many of such. Sugar Level check is also just #500 in the Hospital here.)
Solutions to The Factors Responsible for Unresponsiveness to Medical Checkup.
One major solution to the above factor is simply understanding that routine medical checkup is mandatory for anyone who wants to maintain good health. Understanding this, puts a demand on you, irrespective of the stress or money involved.
Another solution is to boycott the stress of going to the hospital for basic checkups and get some of the apparatus at home. E.g. Sphygmomanometer for Blood Pressure, Glucometer for Blood Sugar level etc.
Growing our Business!
To grow our business to a reasonable height we must know how to manage debt. We might not know how to recover back our profit when we give too much credit. Business prospers when family and friends pay. There is a difference between charity and business. The point is there is free giving in business. Many companies run policies and they are meant to keep them in check, likewise to survive in our business we have to be extremely careful by keeping policies so has not to be chased out of business.
I hate debt go and pay your debt, that which thou owe pay it, I have heard the cry of thy neighbors, go and pay your debt for I owe no man nothing so owe no man nothing but love.
Godliness: A Tool Of Raising The People Of God!
Godliness: A Tool Of Raising The People Of God!
Godliness is the mastery of the mystery of Grace, which is the visible expression of the invisible workings of grace within us. Although the works of repentance from dead works can quickly be seen; but the workings of godliness in the soul are not quickly seen. As unpopular as this statement may seem, it is the difference between a Believer and a Disciple. For the new birth person, fruits of repentance are expected of him.
For instance, he should have stopped lying, fornicating and the likes; but much more than this is a spiritual thing he has found; this is an identity in the spirit and a place of right standing with God. By calling yourself a child of God does not make you one; it is New Birth that makes you one. Also when someone is born again the workings of the Holy Ghost begins in them. A place where God and His people have an expectation and corporate impact on the world is the New Birth.
Attitudes of Godliness - Commitment to the Word of Truth
Matthew 5:2-12 contain the teaching of the attitude of the Kingdom. The people Jesus was addressing were His disciples and not just believers; a believer believes what the Lord says because his heart tells him it is true but he has not made a secondary commitment on what he is hearing. There is a kind of tribulation that is commensurate to the Word that we hear, which is meant to try our hearts so that it can be said that we have heard it. The spirit does not come to try the word of God but it comes to try our hearts. The Word of God is settled in Heaven but it has to be settled in our hearts. There is a tribulation commensurate to the Word that God allows to try us so that the Word can become our word.
The people stayed three days on the mountain and went home because the Word was not yet their life; it was hard for them. There can be people who come to church but they are not committed to the Word that they hear which means that they cannot know Truth; they can have an idea but cannot know Truth for Truth dwells in the heart. These disciples showed commitment to his teachings and Christ raised attitude in them. These disciples were already likened to prophets because they had followed Jesus so much.
Making God Visible Through Godliness
Matthew 5:13-14 KJV - Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
We have to be salt first before becoming light. The first place of the light is in the house. It, first of all, lightens the house before it can lighten the earth. It is the light that lightens the house that flows into the city. When you talk about the city, it is not about the person but the people. God is about His people and not just a person; He wants corporate people. He wants many; He wants the whole earth to be filled with His people.
All the nations of the earth must be visible with the Lord. He must fill the earth and be visible. The Lord must be a city everywhere. This is the intention and the reason the Light cannot be seen in a person, else it will be clothed. The Church has spent time in developing mighty people who want to shake nations but there have been great men who have appeared and disappeared for it is about many people, not one person.
Raising a People as Light by Godliness
We cannot understand the Gospel naturally with our mind; it is the wisdom of God. It cannot make sense that is why we have believed to understand. Our believing is to prepare us to understand. The apostles wherever they went planted church which became local candlesticks with destiny for the communities. The local assemblies are not the building but a people who are connected by the Spirit and have one mind to manifest the Lord. The Lord cannot show himself in a person for it is not by power or might. The attitude of the Church to bring a man to shake the earth cannot make her grow; growth that is not in population but ascension. Whatever we do that does not bring People to God is not ascension.
The local churches are candlesticks. They are light and then a city set on a hill. The city is the first thing seen before the stature is seen. The people of God are the bulb and the glow lamp. The lamp here is Christ appearing as God, giving the Light to the people in the city. A city is God’s people who have built allegiance to Christ and the message. They will show the visibility of the Light. Some may not have the same stature, but some people have the stature as seen in Acts 6:3-5. These are the people who are given the strength or light for the Church as seen in verse Acts 6:7.
Some who had been in the church had been raised to show the Light which they did; they were the first fruit or visibility of the Light. The Church as long as it is an individual showing forth cannot shine. It is in the midst of the first fruit that we have work. The way God designed it is that he wants to generate the Light amid the house, amid His people. Everyone wants praise and fame. We don’t usually like whatever we do that hides us.
If we come to the Gospel this way we will do damage and merchandise the Gospel for gain. God is raising a people who can bear the light and there is an attraction, a relationship among them. They are from a source, a genealogy, and one generation because they must have a source and the source is Christ who separated them from the world. It is not light mingling with darkness but light staying as light and darkness staying as darkness. This means there are different entities.
We work in a place and relate with them but we are an extension of Light. We do not mingle with them but we are better when we have someone who is like us. The problem of indoctrination is that it pulls us apart, not allowing us to see Christ. For instance, an average believer you see is not connected to Christ, all he thinks about is his church. Light is supposed to exist separately from the darkness. If anyone on the earth here will function, he should because he is part of the body.
Growing the Church by the Faith of Godliness
Anywhere Godliness begins to show, the increase is seen in the Church. The summary of all we do in Church is edification, which is how we grow and are raised. The more we see people growing up to this invisibility of Christ the more light we see. For us who are pressing into Eternal Life, the point we are must be well understood. For us to be able to hold the mystery of Life the path must be well seen.
Colossians 1:6-10 KJV - Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth: As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ; Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit. For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
They had been fruitful with the early message in Christ but our knowledge of his Will and spiritual understanding should move us to the knowledge of God.
1 Timothy 6:18 KJV - That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
If we do not have the foundation there is no guarantee that we can lay hold. There is a difference in belonging to the church system and the people. It is possible for a man to hate the people in the church but like what they say and as a minister, you will brood viper by associating with such a person. The Light is the conveyor of the Life, so when we see Light we will soon see Life.
We can’t improve the world system because it is another life entirely.
1 Timothy 5:3-7 KJV - Honour widows that are widows indeed. But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God. Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day. But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
You cannot find blame not that they are without anything wrong, but they understand Faith life which is believing and living by Jesus. Faith life is not getting from God it is believing and living by Jesus.
1 Timothy 5:8-9 KJV - But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
This scripture talks about widows indeed who have practised Faith; that is they have lived the Gospel. These widows have practised the Faith and raised children not biologically but children for the Church, not by feeding them naturally but feeding them with Truth. You can take care of children and not raise them. Taking care of children might be a platform for some things to be done in us but it is a platform, not the working.
To feed a child like your own means you have been saved from yourself. Faith has saved these widows from themselves which proved that the mystery of faith has been understood. These have expressions of the Life of Godliness. When we are in church and we are asked to do some things, we are practising believers’ love to grow to the love of Christ.
Love without dissimulation or preference makes the light glow. The mystery of Faith is the mystery of divine knowledge. It means that we can forget another’s tribe and not relate with such based on that. These widows saw a world above their immediate environment and decided to open themselves to others.
1 Timothy 5:10 KJV - Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
Conclusion
Without Christ’s mystery unveiled, to do Christ will be difficult. Strangers here are church people who move from place to place sometimes they come with letters of recommendations and they are strangers because we are not used to their lives. We are weak when we cannot respond to our brethren because of the way they look or dress but when our hearts practice truth, these sicknesses and diseases of the soul are taken away. These widows enjoy that saints are being blessed. We are endowed with natural things to help saints. These widows have served those who are lesser. When we are carnal, we are blind. If these widows are not fruitful in every good work then they are not increasing. We must grow in faith and the true grace for it is possible to stand in a false grace. The separation between older widows and younger widows is that because of staying in the Church they had acquired stature.
A church in the hand of Jesus is sweet. As we are growing in the spirit, heaven will arrange how men can draw from us. Finances can never increase if men do not draw from us. If they do not arrange people then we are not growing. These widows are not yet in the realm of Eternal Life; they are preambles but notable preambles that are needed to acquire Eternal Life. Life and understanding are realities, charge, guidelines that should guide our lives. Each time we see light shining we should think about our company and not just an individual.
May the Lord grant our hearts help to grow in the Spirit. Amen!
Holding On To His Strength!
It is privilege to have journeyed this way and be moved in a manner that makes our entire life meaningful. Only Christ can share to the deep and remain the same. Every other religion is a religion but he is not a religion, nor a lie. He is Christ. He is Truth and Truth is Strength.
Revelation 4:1-5
After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold. And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
The first experience was the voice of a trumpet, everyone is meant to come to the place of the throne which is the place of perfect salvation. The churches were supposed to journey to God but they were trapped in the shadow of death as in Psalm 91. Coming to God is the ultimate goal. The course of the earth is designed by the devil to ensure no one comes to God because their ascension will destabilize the forces of the heavenlies where he is. He came down from the mountain of God and stood in the air where disobedience is crafted, where nations are empowered so as to keep souls busy here without ascending, the more we grow in the wisdom of the world, the more we are in bondage. Man thinks that as he grows older he will come into rest but there is always a goal set before man which he runs to attain because the earth is designed so that no soul will have time for God.
God sent help through John to the Church in Asia. Though it was in the Holy Place, it needs to spend enough time in the place of ‘under the shadow’ to get to the Most Holy Place where the Light there is not human light. There is a light in the outer court that gives information but we need to get to a realm where we will not depend on the sun for light. Though we cannot bring the whole church to the light as it is now for men have been weakened by someone who has used his strength to weaken them but God has determined that there will be a people whose lives will show the Life.
There were seven trumpets that sounded which are messages for climbing. The seven churches represent the voice of the trumpet. There was need there for them to complete the voice of the trumpet in the Holy Place and move to the voice of the thunder which is the voice of God. Revelation 4 is an upward movement. Rapture will make no sense if we don’t make an upward movement. The man-child company in Revelation 12 was the critical mass who moved from the voice of the trumpet to the voice of the thunder; they were caught up to God and his throne. There is need for us to move to gain God’s strength.
The materials the apostles got were not gotten by vision but by experience; they were experiential. There is how men will journey to God. We cannot serve God if we are not being raised, caught or taken up.
Psalm 122:1-4
I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.
The design of Zion is for upward movement; it is not everywhere that can help us to go up. There is a house of the Lord and a congregation of the saint designed primarily for upward movement. Some souls don’t see any need for upward movement. To go up is to ascend and we need the voice of the trumpet to ascend; when going up we are going against gravity. Anything that is earthly cannot go against gravity. There must be a joy in our hearts when we hear a message for upward movement. There is no place we can find strength and joy except in the Spirit. We must learn to keep our order and parameter in the spirit, if we journey in the flesh, we will gather weight and not ascend; we will die.
Psalm 122:8
For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
Jerusalem has no relevance without the house which is the house of ascension. We should not use our mouths or social media to address the issues of the Church for we cannot address the issue of the Church there. It is within the borders of the Church that Zion will be raised. We must take our vocation seriously. John was taken so as to show others the way. We are meant to be compass to the men who are in trouble to lead them back into the house of the Lord. Even if we come down to our last strength we should not lose strength for heaven is counting on it and it will be the hope of our resurrection.
A door was opened in heaven which was the voice that the church in Philadelphia needed to hear for they were close to that door. They had fought Satan but in fighting the spirit, a door was needed so that they could gather what was needed to ascend to God. They were just following God; they did not see the picture of their voyage for if we are shown the picture of our voyage we will be strengthened but it will not be by faith. We would not be able to build our spiritual lives if we run away from vigil for in it is corporate strength. As long as we are in this flesh we will suffer, not lack of physical things but groanings in order for the body to give way so as not to kill what is in man.
What kept the door open was to the keeping of the Word. He will not open it if we have not used our last strength to open it. We must never give up on the Word for it is better to die with the Word than give up. It is the last strength that we have that will give way to the strength of the Lord. When we are prospering; we are not really prospering for our generation will still go through the same process of fighting. The things and Testament that David was ordained to go through did not allow him to enjoy royalty. The holding on of the things that we have will pave way for what is to come. We should let the last strength that will remain in us be the strength to hold on to the Word of God. We should not just keep church but we should keep the Word of God. If we will keep church it is for us to keep the Word.
The resolve in our hearts must be that the Will of the Lord will prosper in our days. Amen!
January Edition!
Question:
1 John 1:8-9 tell us to acknowledge our sins and confess them. 1 John 3:6, 8-9 seem not to give room for sin at all. Please shed more light.
Answer:
When we come into the Faith, our life works in phases and we move from level to level. The reason John wrote this work is to move children to young men seeing that there is a space between children and fathers. Few people occupy the place of young men but there is a problem with children; it is a problem of false definition which is as a result of assumption. We assume a lot about ourselves. We don’t quickly agree we have sin so we don’t quickly use the Grace made available thereby allowing corruption to catch up with us. We need to see where we are and where we should be. We cannot say we have no sin where we are now so we must not assume though there is a possibility in God where we do not commit sin.
John through the scripture brought out idols to show that we still have sin. Just because we are in a system and gaining mastery doesn’t mean we don’t have sin. For the fact that we are not in the peripheral place of the flesh does not mean that we already have Eternal Life. Until we come to the fellowship which cleanses us and brings us to Eternal Life we do not have Eternal Life, anybody who does not have the knowledge of Eternal Life has sin. If this is not shown to us by John we might begin to crown ourselves having achieved mastery of a level. So we need to be enlightened enough for it is attainable.
John was the last of the apostle and the one who stood so much to find the spirit of the anti-Christ. He confronted and exposed the spirit of anti-Christ.
We are supposed to start in Christ and end in God, we are comers to God; we believe in Christ and come to God. It is the revelation of Christ that we have that brings us to God. John, one of the major trusts of apostleship like Paul, is to unveil Christ and unveil God. The book of John cannot be unveiled by mental calculation. 1 John 1. They have handled the Word but not everything; that was why they had to show John more of Jesus Christ who embodied God, so they kept preaching as more of the Word appeared. The Word is a spiritual and eternal being who did not appear all at once. These people were practitioners but there were those in their days who claimed to be born again and have seen it all. To be born of God was affirmed by John but that is not being born again. Whosoever is born of God has the divine seed within him, has received Eternal Life; stayed there overtime and has been cleansed and perfected by Eternal Life. So, it is not that he cannot sin but the seed does not make him to.
There are those who were not apostles or do not preach the Word but were in the church and embodying Christ. They are called elders, just like the elect lady whose children walk in Truth. Truth has not come to stay in us by us saying that we do not sin, for the Truth is guiding us and has come to be with us. The confession about the anti-Christ is also the teaching of anti-Christ.
1 John 4:1-2
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
Those whose live, teach and agree with the Word of God are testified of in the scripture. So the Word cleanses us because we do not say that we are perfect and by this we are allowing the blood ministry to continue. The issue of cleansing is not in human document we must learn how to always come; if we therefore know in our hearts that we are comers and are not perfect then we will not assume. We take the position of final judgment because we assume we know everything. God is Light and in him is no darkness at all; if we come into Christ we need to move to the zone where there is no darkness at all.
Christ appeared to Paul at Damascus but he still kept journeying. When we have followed Christ to a point God will begin to speak to us; the moment we agree that we have darkness in us then light will come to cleanse us. The sin here is inaccurate judgment and assumption not fornication or lying. John did not want them to start in Christ and not end in God. The anti-Christ spirit is the spirit that will not allow them to end in God. It took time for God to give Christ power over all flesh.
John 17:1
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee
We cannot know God except we know Christ. The end here is to inherit Eternal Life that is the Son and the Father. In the true state of ascension Christ came to show us the way to God not to heaven. It was not all the apostle that has all that John had; any book that does not align with the book of John is not true. Man can be part of divinity not deity; God must be Father to us to move to God as God.
For you will get there; it is your allocation to get there. The reason I work in you is to bring you there. Do not be discouraged in your heart, as long as you are partaking of my blood and manna, you will get there. As you cooperate with my blood you will get there; you will get to my father for he is waiting for me to introduce you to him not just few but all of you, as many that will believe in my working and believe in my righteousness. I have been sent to bring many to glory. There is a glory I will bring you to; it is the glory of my God so keep cooperating and eating for you are close to my God.
Question:
In Psalm 91, who is talking in verse 2 and verse 9. 'Because 'you'... who is 'my' refuge... Who are these? The 'you' and the 'my'.
Answer:
David came into an interaction of two beings. Jesus came into this psalm when he was on the cross where he was pouring his sorrow. This Psalm was written for Christ, what Christ went through before he became the Son, for there were many things that would not allow Him to finish. So he was guarding himself against the day of trouble. Even David did not fully understand what he was writing about. They were prophetic sayings.
In verse 9, the LORD here is the Lord of Christ himself. It would have been a great evil if Christ did not finish the work on earth. Lucifer had a glimpse into the divine Will and had an inspiration and light that he wanted to use against the Son of God. This Psalm is not talking about a new born again believer but a believer whose feet have been shod with the Gospel. The one who has the feet to thread upon Satan is the Son. It was the Word of Oath that delivered the Son. What happened in the grave was dicey but he chose to trust God, he did not reserve some of his strength but committed everything to God his Father. It was God renewing His oath to Christ consistently. Salvation is of God and the first person who saw salvation is the Son and this salvation is also his name. So it was an interaction between the Father and the Son which David peeped into telling us that we can also come there when we walk with Him.
In addition, Christ Jesus was addressing His soul as a third person. When we intercede for our soul we intercede like a priest. Christ was praying for His soul. In verse 14, the Father began to talk and by light Christ stepped aside and prayed for his soul. We must understand that we are spirits that have souls and live in bodies, so we must learn how to pray for our souls. The spirit of Christ was the one on the prophet which ordered that Psalm. We must not despise Prophecy. Some things that we do now are prophetic and are for the future, if not when we die they will all die with us. In that Psalm it means that there is He that will dwell in; we will live our lives in mysteries because of the Spirit of Christ whose job is to unveil God. The utmost time of trouble in our lives as children of God is when secrets are unveiled to us. The reason we are being fought is to make us drop the secrets unveiled to us. Jesus Christ got to a place where only one thing was needful to him. If we have chosen this path we have chosen a rugged life. Though we will have good things but our souls will suffer.
Psalm 22:1
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
The scripture shows what the evil spirit was doing to Him. So that was why he had to pray from the heart. Likewise we need to pray from the heart when we are battered. We can bind some spirits but not all spirits; some are designed to help to elevate us for they will be the ones to come under our feet after we have overcome. Many of these Psalms are Messianic psalms and David suffered too though he had royalty around him but his was troubled. Nobody will journey to life without soul assault. This is not physical poverty.
I do not allow this to happen to you to prevent or destroy you but it is by the expression of this that you will be presented as sons, so that spirits will not say that I brought you unjustly. It is a victory that must be acknowledged by even angels that you are worthy to be honored I have arranged them in your journey to meet you, but I am bringing bread to you so pay attention to this bread for they will translate to strength in the day of battle. Anyone who will come to me must fight this battle. Eat and eat that you may grow beyond these spirits; that your glory and crowning may be before these spirits.
One of the things that amazes me is the level of the Prophetic. Many things were repeated by Jesus in Psalm 22, at the point Jesus was on the cross he was meeting with the last instruction and the height of hell was on Him. He was at a point where anything he asked for would be given him but he must not ask. The scripture is Prophetic; we therefore need the Spirit of the prophetic to break through it and as we obey the Lord we are knowing the Prophetic way. Hallelujah!
Living Our Life By His Strength!
We must pay attention to the contents of the vision for us to be able to run. We don’t have a ministry as an individual, but the ministry we have received of the Lord.
In Zion are entities of strength, they are always strong because they tap into The Source of Strength. One thing that will make us access this Strength is if we understand that there is a program we must follow through. We need the Revelation of Christ to understand this program. Revelation is not high sounding words but words that are kept secret. Zion will be built by these Revelations. We all have our personal agendas before we came to Christ, which could range between our ambitions, fight against poverty and so on. But God has His own agenda which is the terminating of the poverty of the nations which has limited men from looking up to Him.
A horn has kept nations subject. The message of “God is light” is that which has been sent to deliver the nations from the horn that has held them captive. The Spirit had to breathe upon the prophets to say what they said in the scriptures. Seduction is in women. Women are anything the heart can get devoted to. What can keep away from defilement is a racing into the God in the days of their flesh, just as Jesus was building strength while here on earth. He carried the wood while under his father as a carpenter which served as a training for him towards the bearing of the cross to Golgotha. Every man must build strength for the crucifixion of the cross.
When the Holy Ghost is at work, he crosses the boundary of flesh. The system of this earth will keep waxing old. The only thing that is new is what man cannot by his imagination come by. Only in God can that newness be found. The strength of the dragon has limited man from accessing this newness. Strength is mastery and capacity to bear weight just as Jesus was able to carry Kingdom by the strength he built in himself while he was here on earth. Paul came to reveal Jesus in a way that even the disciples didn’t discern him while he was with them. When we begin to follow we will know more than we used to know. God is patient and is a husband that will wear out the enemy. God will expire what we know so that we can rely on him as God our strength. In these days the Lord will empty every pride. The way that should be prepared for the Lord to ride is our hearts and He will by His strength make this way. Our ways will no longer be convenient when the Lord bring his righteousness to us. The sea is not a still water but a place of activities and turbulent happenings. The strength of the Lord is what can handle the activities in the sea. The young people are a focal point in bringing to play the strength of God in the land.
Jonah 1:1-3
Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
We are a people whose strength lies in our corporate existence. There is power in nationhood. The Jews are different from other nations. Jonah entered in the ship going to Tarshish with other men whose ways was in sin. Because he was different from them, the sea rose against them.
You can be a part of a people and not be practicing your occupation. The Church sometimes doesn’t know their God because they are not his people. God cannot be fixed into a constant because his ways are past finding out. You can be in a church and you don’t have the ability to sin anymore because the power of the people cleanses. The people sanctify. In some other gatherings, when you get there, you would feel like sinning the more. Every nation has their common problems but that doesn’t mean that everyone there has the problem.
1 Peter 2:9
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
The mandate of a people is to show. Many are in Christ but not all have Christ in them. Ephesians 5:1-3. By reason of our corporate existence any one that comes into our midst should be unable to express his former life. Assimilation and absorption are the medium by which this is achieved. The message is sent through men. What you see is stronger than what you learn; visuals are stronger than hearing. God wants to raise his people on earth by assimilating them. We are his workmanship; a show of his work in us as the exact representation of himself as seen in Christ. In the art world, nothing is ever wrong as everything is seen as a display of creativity. In divine nature there is a pattern of how things should be. It paints a form of life that once it is violated sin has been committed. The reason we miss the mark even when we have the intention to do right is because we don’t know the scriptures. The people that will showcase the true way things should be in the earth are the people of God. God’s strength is expressed among a people.
John 8:36.
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
We can be in positions where we try to manage our bondages because we have not come to know the Truth. Truth brings liberty. Jesus didn’t come to begin a religion. Jesus is a free man who was at liberty in the days of his flesh to do the Will of God; do compassion, do mercy, save, work on the Sabbath and the likes. Sometimes we are not free to think beyond the bondage of our minds. Death will catch up and destroy a person who does not believe in the values of the company he has found himself.
Isaiah 51:1-3
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Hebrews 12:5-8
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Every nation has their fathers. We are weak because we seem to have many fathers. A true bastard is one who is not fathered or raised by anybody. That you don’t know your father doesn’t mean you are a bastard; you could be raised by another father. Anyone who is without training is a bastard. The Gospel is the true Life. Men are the ones who invented the word ‘Christianity’ and using it as a demeaning word to describe a people who are living differently from the common way of life. But the Gospel is a way of life that is older than men. The true life must be embodied by some. For the Israelites, Jesus told them that they were born by Abraham but weren’t raised by Abraham rather they were raised by a murderer.
Nurture is important as strength flows through it. Looking unto the rock from where we have been hewn is how we can absorb the strength from the source. The problem of the world is that they are looking at the source. A single person’s life is not ultimately about marriage. When we carry marriage in our hearts it will wear us out. The way not to be distracted in our service to God is actually in singleness. There are things around us that look so serious such as having a good job or earning more but these won’t come by us easily because they have what they answer to. If our goal or pursuit is after the program of Eternal Life, things will work for our good. When you believe you can bear all things.
My will and intention is at stake. You will have to leave her for my will. You will have to let him go for my will sake. I have spoken to you by many that I am not with you in this journey you have decided to bear. My will will suffer by that which you have chosen. You will find for thyself in the juncture of my will. Let her go!
You have no time to consider in this matter. When you hear my voice harden not your heart. How long will you waste time on pulling things that don’t matter? Why have you taken things that are not in my will? My yoke is light and not burdensome. You have no time for the things that are hatch in my will for you. You are delaying your process. Do not waste your time anymore.
We need grace to be humble and not be rebellious. It is great love for God to deal with us the way he does. This purpose cleanses and saves. Taking the training of God sanctifies. The way to get it right is to bury your head and decide in your heart to be single. There are forces that even economy obeys. Creature obeys these forces. A force can take over our lives and make us get it right. Sometimes gathering many right instructions may not work if we don’t carry the gene of God. Many things that we don’t find strength to do are done without any ado when his strength is working in us.
Isaiah 51:3-6
For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
We should labour for the emergence of Zion. When we seek his salvation and righteousness it means something has taken us over. The strength of God should be our legal tender because it can never be abolished. It takes strength to do the Will of God and not change our lifestyles even when we move from one place to the other. We can be in a strange land but Zion is our destination. Righteousness is our strength. Because he is our strength, he is also our hope. Desiring the Holy will make us close our eyes against every other thing that seem right. Our trust (based on strength) should be in God and not our business ventures.
1 Timothy 6:17
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
Righteousness is a Life which if we keep staying in, Light will dawn on our hearts and strength to do the Will of God will be given. May we be strengthened with might in our inner man continually to do the Will. Amen!
Our Strength: Aligning With The Purpose of God!
Singleness of heart is sincerity, incorruptibility and oneness. We should do all things under one thing because the one thing is the needful. Our strength has nothing to do with the physical but when men are raised in strength it will affect their environment. For a person who is supposed to enter into the strength of God it will show in the natural. Woe unto us if everybody speaks evil of us everywhere we go for that would mean that we are misrepresenting the Gospel. We must come to the place where there is expression of strength which must be shown to people. We are not asked to exhibit energy or go about with zeal but to exhibit the Lord because demonstration of strength is in the Lord not in our boasting.
1 John 2:5
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
Show me someone who has the Word of God abiding in him and I will show you a strong man. Our strength is not what the world calls strength. Our strength is the Lord and by this knowledge which is the Faith of Christ is spelt by the Gospel. As young people, we should dispense our energy in the pursuit of God; we should not be that person that do not know the workings of God but be the expression of the Godliness of God. Knowledge is what commends strength; a man is strong because of what he knows.
Proverbs 24:4
And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Riches are the programs that God has come to send to his Church which are our inheritance. Strength is the function of wisdom. Abraham was strong in faith and gave glory to God which enabled him to hope against hope. If we have come to know that Christ is our life material things will not be termed as our lives. Knowledge of Christ is strength as knowledge is demonstrated in strength. Isaiah 33:6. When shakings happen if we do not know our strength we will be unstable and easily convinced away from Truth. Wisdom and knowledge stabilize us. We are standing not in our power but in the knowledge of God which communicates knowledge to man. If we want to know a wise man endued with knowledge such should show in Godliness. It takes strength to live a Godly life.
James 3:13-15
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
Malice, and strife and anger are expressions of a wisdom. Some people are strong in the flesh but the Lord wants to strengthen us in his strength. It takes strength to stand and not complain because we see from the side of God. Whatever we do should be shown in the meekness of wisdom. There is a Grace that is in Christ Jesus and this grace is strength to us. The display of anointing or doing of miracle in any way is not strength. Strength is patience embodied; it is power under control. It takes strength to forgive. When we come to the point where we can easily forgive we have come to the place of strength. This is power in the character of Christ.
What will make us strong is if we have known the Truth in Christ Jesus. Jesus Christ is full of Grace and Truth. Grace is divine ability while Truth is the content that will help us to express the divine ability. Fullness is having the knowledge and Life of Christ. Strength is complete when we have the manner of the Life of the Spirit and also understand the spirit. Anything that we can do by ourselves is our strength. The strength of the Lord will always ask us to do things that are naturally impossible but when we ask for help it will be possible. When we have God we have strength. It takes strength to do the law and covenant for those who know their God will be strong and do covenant.
Before now the Church has handled demon but now the Church will handle Satan himself. When we see Babylon falling it is a pointer. The warfare is becoming heightened but the Lord is the strength of our lives. It is higher than an average believer but the Lord will move us in to the sphere where all things are bare. We will have the strength to stand when we grow and all things are made naked to us.
For it is one building that I am constructing on the face of the earth, I am bringing stones that will fit into their place, and the house will have their full shape. I am bringing stones that will fit into the building. You will also be a stone that will fit into the picture, that you might bring down the image, and the crushing down of the image, pay attention to the raising of this building, pay attention that you might bring down that which has kept many away in the pursuit of life. Pay attention even has you build that building that will bring down the enemy.
God is doing a work of building himself in men and when the work is done we will see people in different shapes and colour. God is saying that a time will come when we will come to our strength; where God will collapse individual strength and make it OUR STRENGTH; then no man will be able to say “I”. There is a display of individual strength, wisdom and ability; a time where individual strength will not be found again and God will become Our strength. Ministers need to be conscious of what they preach and teach for they are to build according to pattern. God is raising a people of strength who will totally depend on God and will not put their trust in their natural strength of wisdom. We must agree with God so that we can be built.
God is restoring the strength of the Church; He is raising a church, a people who are not weaklings and who will not shy away from responsibility; people who can fight for their people in places of authority and cannot be bought by any material thing. By the time we migrate from my, mine, I, to “our”, it will be of the Lord. We should fear God who holds the waters in the hollow of His hands and measures the hills and mountains on the scale. Daniel stood in Government in His time. Likewise Joseph, he stood for righteousness in his time, so we should know that when we get to the place of authority we are representing US.
Psalm 133:1-2
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;
There is a blessing that comes down upon the Church. The blessing that the Church will begin to enjoy when we fully come together when Christ becomes our strength is when we begin to speak the same thing. The reason we see individual strength is because we are eating from different tables. The moment we begin to eat from the same table we will begin to look alike and not be bought with any physical thing and this is the blessing. God wants to bring the Church to the place where we are one, where we agree and align on the same thing. A man of strength is a man who can define gratification, who can stand and not be moved. Samson was seen as a man of great strength; he alone killed thousands and carried the city’s gate as heavy as it was up the mountain but he was not actually a man of strength. He was full of weakness to have gone to Delilah’s house and also dying on her laps. Joseph instead was a man of strength to have denied Potiphar’s wife at the expense of his freedom.
When the Spirit is speaking expressly we know that there is a problem but it is not about the problem, it is about the solution which is made known by the Spirit. We have thrived in the days where we have fought personal battles but it has never been meant to be personal but corporate. It is clear that in the times that we are in, the things that will come against us cannot be fought personally. When we have a conflict that wants to threaten our existence then we will lift up our eyes to our God to save us. In this season we are in, men will turn to God and will ask for help.
Psalm 46:1
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
We have seen churches grow to the extent that everything about it projects man’s gift. The Church in Acts grew with so many multitudes and prospered; such a church cannot be called weak. There are strengths that exist that came from God which can make a man strong or make him weak if he is not careful. A man can be vain and yet strong. When we come to the household of God there is a strength that must become weak, just like Paul who became weak as a result of knowledge that he has. There are levels of knowledge that make us weak when we have them. It is possible for a man to be strong in the gift given by God yet vain.
It is not what Satan gives that is called strength but what God gives that is not used in God’s way unto salvation which is being turned by the enemy. If we are strong today and we do not move to the next level of the strength of God a higher power of the enemy will overcome us. Ananias and Saphira in the book of Acts came with an assumption of doing so much yet doing little. This was a strange spirit to the Holy Ghost and they were judged immediately. The Church met at different levels and the Spirit dealt with them according to that level. There was a time where men could leave their jobs and all they hold dear but right now the enemy has weakened them and they can go to any length to get what they need. A man can be weak or strong in faith, but in the Faith of God we either get rich or poor.
James 2:1
My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
It is the Lord that administers individual strength but he wants us to come to the place of OUR strength and OUR salvation. This faith here is what is needed to come into Glory. In the realm of “our”, it is about what God is doing inside us and not what he is doing outside us. Strong faith cannot make us heirs, it can only make us have a promise but rich faith makes us heirs. The devil does not fear a promise but he fears “the” promise. We are coming into the sphere where the discourse will be general salvation and knowledge that we need somebody else. There is no way to access our strength if we are not fully dependent on Him.
Psalm 46:5
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
The corporate essence is the whole essence. Once it is corporate we will not trust in our individual strength. We are in a season where God is telling us to take time out to know him until we come to the head of all things, Christ is the head because he is a building of knowledge. We need to come to the place where the complete person of the I AM is known, for he is the one who has the full content.
Paul’s imprisonment brought about skills he did not know he possessed. When we walk with God and we are attacked, new abilities will be awakened in us. The Churches in Acts were stronger in their moments of tribulation. If you are a strong man you will not be able to tap into even natural resources for it will be assumed that you have everything it takes to do a thing. When we are really strong then we are weak but when we are weak then we are strong so in the path of salvation God will lead us through ways that will make us weak. Psalm 48:1. God is mindful of the whole earth not only about us so God will have to take our attention away from ourselves to the whole earth so as to see what He is doing. To enjoy God’s strength we must look to Him. God’s strength is to be made known in Zion. Amen! Hallelujah!
The Design and The Place of Strength!
This is the first summit for the year and is necessary to prepare us for the year’s voyage. This year has started powerfully and this summit is to thrust us into that which the Lord will be doing this year. It is not only the singles that this summit is for, as we must also be single at heart. Jehovah is our strength not our efforts, muscles, chariots etc. The Lord is our everlasting strength.
Psalms 46:1-3
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
Anytime we wake up in the morning, we start the day not bothering ourselves on how strong we are except if there is a demand placed on the strength in us. Anytime there is the mention of strength then there is a demand or challenge. Whenever God is mentioned as the mighty or the Lord of host this indicates that there is battle or war.
Psalms 90:2.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Mountains are ancient in nature. Mountains have the character of being immovable and unshakeable. Any power that can shake mountains is not mere. A time will come when these mountains (everything in the physical that man has put his trust in) will be shaken. The traditions, culture, civilization and everything that man has will be shaken. These times are perilous and dangerous times. God spaced out time for these perilous times to be and they would surely come. This a very dangerous time for the seed of Faith or seed of God because it is a trying time that will test and prove everything that can be seen. In such a time, we would only desire strength if we are interested in the battle. Strength is not kept within to be dormant. It is gathered for it to be used.
Isaiah 28:6
And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
You cannot have the spirit of judgment if you do not desire the seat of judgment. Praise was the major thing in the hearts of the disciples when the Holy Ghost came upon them at Pentecost. This made Peter stand to address the people and he interpreted the experience which would have been lost if he had not done so because the interpretation gave them direction. This however is different from the spirit of judgment which is required for sitting. Psalm 1. If you have not walked you cannot sit. For the spirit of judgment to rest you must have journeyed from walking to standing and then sitting in judgment.
Strength is needed by a people who are taking a position because they know and have sighted the enemy. To unmask the enemy is important. The strength of the enemy is his concealed nature. Diseases that are deadliest have the ability to hide themselves and are not easy to diagnose nor cured. The strength of sin is in its capacity to hide. Sin or iniquity is mysterious.
Before a man can desire strength he must have come to the gates. Men who are ready to withstand the gates of hell are the ones that will receive strength. The gates of hell are an advancing one that has overpowered many. Whatever keeps men from advancing is a gate or prison house. One can be in there and not know. When one is in a prison, such life consists only within the confines of the prison. The prison becomes one’s world. Such is what the earth has become for man. Man doesn’t know anything outside the earth.
For the enemy has done this wicked work to torture man. The habitation I have made for praise is made to be from torture and death because man is so used to dying. But I have come with light to bring liberty to them that are kept by grave and death. It is time for praise to be in the earth. Finally, before the earth will be taken away, I will cause praise to be fulfilled in the earth.
This conflict is about humanity. Our eyes should be open to the conflict and the real issues on ground. It is possible to think that sin is not the only issue of man but the problems of man are a product of the imprisonment man has found himself. Our freedom is in destroying what has kept us bound.
Strength is designed for men at the gates because there is a battle meant to be fought at the gates. Strength also means judgment. In the season we are in, men will do the Will of God and there will be peace in the land. What the enemy does is to make the problem a mirage such that we are confused at how to tackle them. We will first need to locate the head. Isaiah 8:7-15.
Isaiah 7:8-9
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
The head of the gate of hell is sin and that is why Jesus died for sin. Psalm 110:1-2. We must know the enemies we need to put underfoot. The problem of the Jews is that the enemies that were prophesied about seemed to be not what Jesus came for. The job of the gates of iron was to hold children down. Jesus would have needed to build men with physical strength if he had come solely to bring down the kingdom of Rome; but Rome was under the control of a spirit who left them when he was through with them. Strength is needed when men are in captivity. What makes men or nations to remain the way they are is strength.
The first thing Jesus did was to understand the battle. Money or poverty is not our problem. Jesus lived in a time when poverty was more prominent than it is now in our days. To an Israelite to show that you love Israel you must be against the Rome. But what Jesus came to do was to bring freedom to the gates in the soul. If we are liberated this way, even the Roman Government cannot bind us. Daniel 9:23. The problem on ground for Israel was a matter and a vision. What caused the problem of the nation is a whole big picture. Problems in the spirit are not easily solved. They must be solved holistically but man can’t wait for the process of solving these problems. He ends up seeking power to solve his problems.
Patience is strength. God is not just strong; he is an everlasting strength which means he can wear you out. Though the devil can last for long, he will be expired. The system that runs the demons is Satan. Casting demons out will continue until we change their system. It is not easy to remove them because their feet are in man. What happens at the gate is not the demons but the systems that control them and to change the systems the world will fight you. Strongholds are ideologies.
2 Corinthians 10:5
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
An average Nigerian has been circumvented with the ideology of money as the reward for every effort. The Gospel is a divine ideology or God’s ideology. The Lord is strong and has inexhaustible strength. Everlasting speaks of the test of strength. In the days of David and Saul there has a long battle. We know strong men by long battles. David’s house was growing stronger, depicting the nature of God. You experience strength in Zion because it is a place of battle and it is a place of God. Nothing else strengthens them in Zion except God.
We are required to know what exactly the problem is for the season ahead of us. Salvation is strength. Hebrews 9:28. Without the appearance of strength we can’t come to salvation. Sin and death are two entities that have the power to reign. The grave is also strong and the devil gave these entities power to express his nature. We can’t have victory without strength.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
What makes people do without God is strength. It is the Gospel that can reveal our state of lack. For the Lord to become our everlasting strength means that the warfare against the gates or the forces of death won’t be given up. Isaiah 26:4.
By the Spirit and the saving of the soul many problems that we know and don’t know about fall off. As we grow we are being strengthened to fight. To grow is to fight. The first place of show of strength is in growing. The first place to express strength is in walking. We need enough strength to get to the gates. Gates are powers and will require more than anointing to subdue. The first miracle of the apostles was a demonstration of the activity of the Christ. The lame was kept there to display the power of the Gospel. One of the show of the presence of strength in the Church is that the love for money will no longer be.
The Gospel is the power to save us. our strength is to do God. Daniel 11:32. We are to do the covenant and not exploits.
In this days scale will fall and it will apperar the away it should be. You will be known as you are known that you may pursure that which you should. I have sent my angel to guve understanding that will free from what has plagured man. To make you see that which is right and how do right. As we see we are made free. You will see well. And that which has thrilled men will no longer thrill you. You will see better.
Acts 3:1-6
Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.
And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.
Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
The sign of the Gospel of Christ is that you will have strength to rise up and walk. To stand is stronger than walking. We would first have to stagger while standing. There are things to do to stand. Picking that lame man by his right hand depicts righteousness revelation or righteousness. The first standing of righteousness at new birth is by Faith. But to stand as depicted in Psalm 1, we would require to have first walked. The first place of strength is for those who will walk in the Spirit. Walking in the Spirit is walking by the dictates of Christ. Christ is Spirit. Walking in the Spirit is walking in the form or pattern of doctrine that is after Christ. God is restoring to the Church walking in obedience and Faith that is by the knowledge of God being shared to us.
Isaiah 28:7-8
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
What causes erring is a function of how we feed after being filled with the Holy Ghost. The milk and the breast are the initial doctrines that would prepare us for a higher doctrine. The higher doctrine comes as lines upon lines and precepts upon precepts.
The war in this season is that of peace. We would be at peace because we have gathered strength. We would be unmovable if we enter into rest, strength and peace. Halleluyah!